I have searched the forum with regard to my query, so apologise if I have missed the answer!

We have recently started using Office 2007 and a few of our secretaries have reported some issues they have found when tracking changes in a Word document.

Our Agreement styles use the Heading 1 numbering style, and when tracking changes the following occurs:-

(1) If for example a new clause 1.1 is being inserted, clause 1.2 will be created and will be tracked to show a new 1.2, but will also display 1.1 as having been deleted... I have attached a screen shot to show you what I mean!!!

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(2) On inserting a new clause 1.1, the tracked numbering will now appear in grey font. Again you will see what I mean by the screen shot. The text itself will display in the colour given to the author tracking the document, but the numbering will not be assigned the same colour, it is always displayed in grey. I have checked settings but can't see where this can be changed, if it all!

I'm not sure what behavior you want. I have seen what you describe, usually on client computers. But right now I can't seem to make Word do it on mine. I have sometimes selected the numbering and accepted the changes to the numbering only. Would doing something like that work for you?

It appears that the colour of the numbers is always grey if you show the revisions coloured by author. If you set a specific colour for all insertions and deletions then the tracked numbering appears in a predictable colour.

Perhaps the way Track Changes "looks" at the numbering change is that after the user change (new heading), Word itself is making the numbering change and not the user who added the the new heading level or who changed the text of another heading. That makes sense to me and prevents users from thinking that "Joe" changed all the numbers fromt here to the end--perhaps even in sections he should not have touched.